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Message: [QUOTE="StackThemUp, post: 340926, member: 6140"] Hi, First of all congratulations on the baby! My advice would be to loosen up early on in the tournament. when the blinds are so small compared to your stack,you can afford to see a lot more flops. By presenting this image to players that you play a lot of hands works in your favour later on in the tournament. When its getting close to the money a lot of people will be folding..take advantage of this...make large bets with strong positive hands and also do some blind stealing. Getting back to playing loose early on.. in the later stages you should tighten up and whenever you do play the flop people will find it pretty hard to put you on a hand as they saw you earlier playing a lot of hands. An excellent thought is this: People won't want to be going broke early on so as you have been, they play tight...by playing looser you can take advantage of their tightness by winning lots of small pots. I would suggest learning the GAP theory too which is researchable on the net or in David Sklansky's books. Chuck has got the right method for calculating hand odds quickly,over time these will come like second nature, however i would add that once you've worked out your hand percentage you need to convert this into odds to compare to the pot odds. For example...lets say you have a flush draw on the flop, there are 2 cards remaining to be seen so you have 9 outs. 9x4= 36% (actual % is 34.95) Now to get your hand odds simply divide your % into 100 and minus 1 ie. 100/36= 2.77 -1 = 1.77/1. So now you now that your pot odds need to be bigger than 1.77/1 to make your call worth while. Hope this has helped you in any way possible..any questions fire away. John [/QUOTE]

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